Title: Domestic Costs of Nuclear Deterrence:  Voter Turnout and Nuclear Weapons Testing
Authors: Unislawa M. Williams, Mya Whiles, Tinaz Pavri
Contact: uwilliams@spelman.edu
Date: 28 April 2025


This dataset and replication code support the article titled "Domestic Costs of Nuclear Deterrence: Voter Turnout and Nuclear Weapons Testing" that is to be published in PS: Political Science and Politics.

The analysis combines:
- Original data collected by the authors (provided with this documentation), and
- External data from "Replication Data for: 'Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events.'" 
External data must be downloaded seperately.  It can be found at:

Marsh, Wayde Z.C. 2022. "Replication Data for: 'Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events'" 
Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/doi:10.7910/DVN/MXKMSE.

Note: San Juan and White Pine data are missing from the external data.  Washington data are missing for 1988.

This documentation includes the following files:
Compensated.csv — These data are collected by the authors from government documentation. Please see specifically: 
Szymendera, Scott D.  2022. "The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA): Compensation Related to Exposure Radiation from Atomic Weapons Testing and Uranium Mining."  Congressional Research Service.  Accessed June 19, 2024. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R43956, and
RECA.  1990.  42 U.S.C. §2210 note; enacted as P.L. 101-426 on October 15, 1990.
Replication_code.Rmd — RMarkdown file containing all code used to generate the results presented in the article.
README.txt — This file.


The following variables are included in the Compensated.csv
1. year, which indicates presidential election years (1980-1996).
2. county, which indicates affected county.
3. state, where the county is located.
4. Compensated1990, a binary variable indicating counties that were included in 1990 RECA.
5. Considered_For_Compensation_But_Not_Compensated1990, a binary variable indicating counties considered for compensation (Szymendera 2022) but not compensated in 1990.
6. Compensated_without_Washington, which classifies Washington as not compensated to account for potential sensitivity of the analysis and 1988 missing data.
7. NotCompensated_with_Washington, which classifies Washington as not compensated to account for potential sensitivity of the analysis and 1988 missing data.
8. Compensated_without_Mohave, which classifies this county as not compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990.
9. NotCompensated_with_Mohave, which classifies this county as not compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990.	
10. Compensated_with_Coconino, which classifies this county as compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990. 	
11. NotCompensated_without_Coconino, which classifies this county as compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990.	
12. Compensated_without_Clark, which classifies this county as not compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990.	
13. NotCompensated_with_Clark, which classifies this county as not compensated to account for potential sensitity of the analysis given the county was partially compensated in 1990.	
14. post, which flags elections after the 1990 RECA implmentation.											




Replication Instructions:
1. Download the external dataset Marsh, Wayde Z.C. 2022. "Replication Data for: 'Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events'" 
Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/doi:10.7910/DVN/MXKMSE.
2. Place the external dataset and the files provided here into the same folder.
3. Double-click on the 'Replication_code.Rmd' to open it in R. 
4. Knit the code to reproduce the analyses, tables, and figures from the article.


For external data, please cite Marsh, Wayde Z.C. 2022. "Replication Data for: 'Trauma and Turnout: The Political Consequences of Traumatic Events'" 
Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/doi:10.7910/DVN/MXKMSE.


Citation:
Unislawa M. Williams, Mya Whiles, Tinaz Pavri. 2025. "Replication Data for: 'Domestic Costs of Nuclear Deterrence:  Voter Turnout and Nuclear Weapons Testing.'"  Harvard Dataverse.  

